Benferhat

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by Benferhat 12y ago
I might even incorporate the request rate into a bot detection algo, maybe have it trigger temporary hellbans.
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EBay coder helped create Silk Road(newsbtc.com)
4 points by Benferhat 12y ago|0 comments
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by Benferhat 12y ago
I've used GAE since its inception, never even heard of anything like this happening. Any updates?
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by Benferhat 12y ago
I believe he's talking about Diablo 2 (the timeframe works, and the game is notorious for duping), in which Blizzard provides shady third party companies with items, which are then sold to users.
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by Benferhat 12y ago
If I'm not logged into a site a that I regularly use, I'm probably not logged into my email, either. In order to log into my favorite site with Passwordless , I have to log into my email as well. With my password. One login for t
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by Benferhat 12y ago
Each plugin is a potential confounder.
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by Benferhat 12y ago
They seem to have done a small early beta over the summer, I guess they got in early.
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by Benferhat 12y ago
I'd like to hear arguments for why it would be unfair competition for Google to put spammy ad agencies out of business.
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by Benferhat 12y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I missed it due to adblock. I made the link non-clickable and added a warning.
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by Benferhat 12y ago
I found a demo[0] via this old forum thread from August[1]. Obviously there are privacy concerns. That being said, this looks like a boon for anyone interested in bot detection, as you can periodically challenge your users' humanity wi
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by Benferhat 12y ago
McKenna is more famous for his excessive use of psychedelics. Terence McKenna: "There are only about 1,000 of these GBMs a year, so it's a rare disease. I never won anything before - why now?" Like everybody else, he suspecte
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by Benferhat 12y ago
The price of bitcoins has already dropped 10% since the news.
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by Benferhat 13y ago
>> In the checkout flow it is best practice to offer as many payment options available because it increases the likelihood of a successful conversion. Are you sure about that? Too many choices sometimes leads to no choice at all. [0
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by Benferhat 13y ago
"My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy."
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by Benferhat 13y ago
You love the phrase "regulatory capture", don't you? :)
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by Benferhat 13y ago
> This Event Has Been Deleted mirror, please?
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by Benferhat 13y ago
How are users protected from malicious exit nodes, assuming they're visiting sites unprotected by SSL?
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by Benferhat 13y ago
> "Commercial" means the site contains ads Your idea started out good. Sometimes I want to research a product before I go looking for a merchant. Blocking all sites that contain ads? Just use adblock if you're that fanatic
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by Benferhat 13y ago
tl;dr: LED bulbs get too hot, lowering their life expectancy. Manufacturers need to include cheap thermistor circuits, which automatically dim the light to a safe thermal equilibrium.
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by Benferhat 13y ago
add &yt:cc=on to the YouTube URL [0] to enable subtitles. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE&yt:cc=on
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by Benferhat 13y ago
Firefox is more performant on my Ubuntu box than Chromium, even for things like Gmail and Google Docs.
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by Benferhat 13y ago
I'm not even asking for automatic alternate routing. How about letting me switch to a better route manually, without exiting navigation?
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by Benferhat 13y ago
The new Google Maps on Android is terrible, as well. It's missing features, most notable of which is the ability to search for alternate routes when you hit traffic.
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Georgetown Alumni Network Migrates to Google Apps(alumnimigration.georgetown.edu)
1 points by Benferhat 13y ago|0 comments
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by Benferhat 13y ago
Why throttle them? Let them hit the caps and pay for more data.
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by Benferhat 13y ago
Did you mean: recursion
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by Benferhat 13y ago
Try something like this, off the top of my head: http://pastebin.com/srYteiXQ
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by Benferhat 14y ago
Sure, sometimes their usernames are their primary keys. Even if the actual primary key is arbitrary, the primary identity is still exposed to the user, in that they know what their user account is, and which email addresses are linked to it
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by Benferhat 14y ago
> But it's one that's never exposed to the actual user. Why not expose it to the user? Because then they'll want to change it? Are you talking about browser fingerprinting? We already expose this on the user/email level, where users
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by Benferhat 14y ago
I blame ruby for being a great way to go for people that don't know a single thing about programming .

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